GCCDD hears developing woes

Published 7:00 pm, Tuesday, April 30, 2002

At an April 23 meeting of the Galveston County Consolidated Drainage District, homeowners from the neighborhood commented to the district's board on a preliminary study of the River Oaks subdivision.

River Oaks would be built on top of the Sun Meadow Golf Course which winds its way into the homes of Sun Meadow.

The golf course also acts as a detention area for Sun Meadow, holding storm water until it can drain and reducing flooding of homes.

GCCDD General Manager David Kocurek said the study set new drainage in form of a drainage swell between the existing homes and the new development of River Oaks.

The study also looked conceptually at any "trouble spots" that exist for drainage in the subdivision, he said.

Kocurek also said that preliminary design and plats of the development would still need to be approved before River Oaks could be built.

The next step would be three or four months away, and GCCDD would examine the proposal closely, he said.

"We keep a close eye on it," Kocurek said.

The prospect of additional homes on the golf course has not set well with Sun Meadow residents in the past. A zoning change request for a higher density subdivision was pulled by developers when several residents spoke out against more homes at a Friendswood Planning and Zoning meeting.

Current zoning already designates the golf course land as residential, and no zoning requests are required to construct homes on the land.

In other GCCDD news, the district continues waiting through a 30-day response period from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concerning a desnagging of Clear Creek.

GCCDD, along with the cities of Friendswood and Pearland and Brazoria Drainage District No. 4, sent a letter to the Corps requesting permission to clean brush from the creek to improve flow.

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If no response is received from the Corps at the end of the 30 days, the group can begin work on the project.